UI MOD: Rheclaim v2

[Rheic]

New in v2: Actually works now!
Fixed an issue some people were having where reclaim labels were not being created if the new menu options had never been used.


Rheclaim v2

Enables the player to more quickly evaluate reclaimable mass by automatically assigning each reclaim label a text size and/or color based on its mass value. This allows the player to quickly differentiate between high value and low value wreckage on the map at a glance.

By default the lowest value reclaim displays green text and this smoothly changes as mass value increases, through yellow and ending at orange. Text size also increases as mass value increases. Both of these features can be turned on or off, as well as color options selected, via two menu options in the interface menu.


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Credit

This is basically my version of a mod created by Mielus and posted about here so credit to him.

[keyser]

would it be possible to agregate the reclaim in one spot to reduce the number of number on the screen ?
and if you zoom in, the agregated number split off.

[Rheic]

Good idea. Although programmatically deciding which labels to group together seems quite complex (and possibly cpu intensive) but I'll certainly put some thought into it.

[nine2]

Nice, Ill use the mod

[Nojoke185]

Some questions…

In the Mod how many levels/groupings of reclaim are there and what are the default ranges in each?
Could a menu option be made available to allow the user to customize mass values ranges and colors to their own taste?

i.e. as an example (user can set via a slider or input box the below to their own taste)

Low mass values = 10-200 mass (green)
Medium mass values = 201-500 mass (yellow)
High mass values = 501+ mass (orange)

Presumably the min displayed mass value cut off (10 in example above) is already handled by the existing game setting (so the mod would not allow to go below that value)

Nice mod also!

[Rheic]

Thanks Nojoke!

There are actually no groupings with ranges. Or infinite, depending on your point of view. This mod doesn't work by assigning a color/size based on the mass value falling into a particular range, as in Mielus's. Instead each reclaim label is assigned a color and size based on the results of entering its mass value into two logarithmic functions that are designed to spit out an appropriate text size/color change. This allows every possible mass value to have it's own individual color and size and avoids the need for a long series of if/else statements.

It would be possible to allow the user to edit the values used in the equations to get different results. For example, the point at which the color reaches its final value is currently set at 6000 and this is easily changed. The minimum text size is easily changed. Other than that though, basically what you're customizing is the shape of the logarithmic curve and this would be confusing to the user as it wouldn't be obvious what would result from changing the values. Maybe I could design a function that changes each value in the equation by a particular amount (via a slider) that makes sense without having to involve the user in the actual mathematics. I'm not sure whether the average user would appreciate a bunch of extra menu options for fine-tuning though. Ultimately you can always open the lua file and mess with these values anyway.

[Nojoke185]

thanks for the info, it sounds more complex than i had realized in the code

[axel12]

https://github.com/FAForever/fa make PR

[Rheic]

New version up. Basically if it wasn't working for you before, it should be now.

[douglasg14b]

I feel like this should be something that's part of FAF, this is pretty slick.

@Rheic would you consider making PR to FA to see if maintainers want it in?